Every decade or so, we are required to hate the enslavement of blacks by white Southerners twice as much as we did last decade, while the vastly larger, more brutal, and more recent use of slavery by the communist nations politely vanishes down the memory hole.

Observe that Tyler Cowan is terribly worried about the horrible horrible brutality of the Syrian government, even though the Syrian government is not doing anything the US government would not do were one of the US states to declare independence or be taken over by militias. However Tyler Cowan, and our government, was entirely unworried that a government in the Congo that they armed and funded, and continue to arm and fund, put down a revolt of Tutsis with mass state sponsored rape and by vaginally impaling Tutsi women with very large objects. Observe that when these crimes in the Congo are reported, they are reported in the same pious way that car burnings are reported, wherein unidentified people set fire to the cars of other unidentified people. If anyone is blamed, it is “warlords” for creating the conditions that led to these events, “warlords” being the rebels themselves – in other words the Tutsis in the Congo had it coming to them for rebelling.

If it was Tutsis doing it to Hutus, let alone whites doing it to blacks, the outrage would be wholly apocalyptic. And if the Cathedral reacts this way to state sponsored mass rape and sexual mutilation of Tutsis, how would they react if the victims were white? Well, we don’t need to speculate, because this was pretty much the way that whites have been ethnically cleansed from rural parts of South Africa.

The state of the Congo, the state of South Africa, the increasingly totalitarian character of the US government, all look like moral regress to me.

And I would say that moral regress set in with the Victorians, who at the same time as they were busy bowdlerizing literature and congratulating each other on how the culture supported chastity, removed the punitive consequences for female sexual immorality, and the restrictions that denied women the opportunity to engage in sexual immorality, and it has been ever escalating hypocrisy since then.

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“Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which you are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked…It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.”

Today, we are deeply shocked by “racism”, a word, a concept a thought, that did not exist until the twentieth century, and was known only to a handful of intellectuals until the mid twentieth century.

Chesterton’s Victorian grandmother was shocked by the sight of a lady’s ankle, but this was already a displacement activity, reflecting the fact that during the Victorian period people had ceased to be shocked by married women committing adultery, and single girls giving their virginity to bad boys, and instead politely averted their eyes.